Sophie sent me a link a couple of weeks ago about this and it sounds great! Basically, Bayer have got together with Nintendo to create a video game just for kids with type 1.

As you can see from the image in this post, the name of the game is “Knock ‘em Dead”. As far as I can tell, the game itself isn’t based on a diabetes narrative (I think this is a good thing), but kids get extra points to play the game via doing blood tests.

Essentially, the Didget meter (shown in the image, plugged into the Nintendo console) is based on the regular BG tester from Bayer called a CONTOUR. It takes the same test strips and…

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